Improved beer-cooler



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`HENRY C.IDART, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

Letters Patent No. 92,429, dated July 13,1869.

IMPROVE!) BEER-COOLER.

TherSchedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part ofthe same.

To all w'l'wmfit may concern: l

Beit known that I, HENRY C. DART, of the city and State of New York, have invented and made a new and useful Improvement in Coolers for- Beer, Ste.; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the said invention, reference being had to the annexed drawing, making part of this specification, wherein Figure 1 is a side view of the` cooler;

Figure 2 is a plan ofthe same;

Figure 3 is a vertical section ofthe apparatus transversely, atA the line a: x,- vand y Figure 4 is a detached plan and vside view of the hooks that are used for uniting the sheet-.metal forming,r the chambers. f n Similar' marks of reference denote the same parts.v

This invention consists in a series of corrugated metallic chambers, in conblnationwith'supply and-delivery-pipes, arranged so that the cooling-water enters at one end of one chamber and at the opposite end of the next chamber, and passes away by separate delivery-pipes; thereby the cooling-action is equalized.

Furthermore, I construct the sheet-metal chambers with interior hooks and eyes, to sustain the parts against either the pressure of the water or any enternal atmospheric pressure, thereby preventing the sheets moving by the pressure, or buckling or changing shape under expansion or contraction ofthe metal.

1n' the drawing, I have represented the cooler as formed of four corrugated sheet-metal chambers, a b c l1. v

The horizontal edges of the corruga-tedsheets of one section lap upon the edges of the section next below, so as to form surfaces over which the beer runs, and is received at the `bottom in a trough.

Previous to the sheets being soldered together, I attach, by solder or brazing, on opposite sides of the respect-ive currugations, and at suitable distances apart, the eyes c and hooks t, as seen in fig. 4. v

These are all simultaneously hooked together in each section, by an end-movement of the sheets after one corrugated -sheet is placed on the other, and to keep the corrugated sheets `apart, I introduce strips or bars, o, at suitable distances apart, running transversely of said corrugations. 'These hooks, eyes, and bars iirml y connect the corrugated sheets together, and keep the parts at the proper distance from one another. 1he horizontal edges of the sheets are then soldered together, to form the chambers, and the end plates f and g are attached and close the ends of the chambers. These plates' are to be soldered to place, and may be made in sections, for the respective chambers ay l1 c d, or they may extend from top to bottom, as shown.

rlhe beer is introduced through a pipe, h, into the trough k, and runs from the edge of the trough over the surfaces of the chambers, there being a pipe, 71,', in'

the trough, with a longitudinal slit, to facilitate the vequal distribution of the beer.

l is the inlet cold- Water pipe, with a cock1, to the section orv chamber' a'.

l1 is a horizontal branch to the vertical pipe Z2, hav-v ing cocks, 2 and 4, tosupply cold Water to the sections b and (l, and 3 is a cock to supply waterto the cham-k ber c.

' By means of these 'cocks the proper amount of water can be suppliedto the respective chambers. For instance, if it is desired to suddenly check the'tempera- .ture o f the b er, more water can be supplied to the tered, by the respective pipes 11, 12, 13, and 14, lead- ,Y

ing into the overflow-pipe n or u2, connected together by the pipe nl. l

These branch-pipes, 11, 12, 13,14, pass away from the lower portions of th'e respective chambers, and, in order t-o allow-of the escape of air, the small pipes 5, 6, 7, 8, are introduced, opening either into n or n2. The overflow from n is to be as high as the top of the chamber a, so as to keep the chambers full;

By this construction, the temperature of any part of the apparatus can be regulated at will, and the cooling of the beer is equalized, in consequence of the Water being admitted from alternate opposite ends of the chambers.

What I claim, land desire to ysecure by Letters Pat-.'

ent, is-

1. The series of horizontal cprrugated chambers, placed one above the other, in combination with the inlet-pipes and cocks, and outlet pipes, arranged in the Amanner and for the'purposes set forth. i

2. The hooks t' and eyes e, united to the interior 'surfaces of the corrugated metallic sheets,and set together, as and for the purposes set forth.

3. The trough k, fit-ted. with the horizontal pipe within it,.having a longitudinal incision, to equalize the flow ofthe beer, which runs over the edge of the trough, substantially as specified.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my signa-` ture, this 10th day of June, A. D. 1869.

HENRY C. DART.

Witnesses GHAs. H. SMITH, GEo. D; WALKER 

